Headline

AI Engineer at Wayground (formerly Quizizz)

About

Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Plaksha University, with hands-on experience in AI and machine learning. As an AI/ML Engineer at Wayground, actively contributing to cutting-edge projects, utilizing advanced techniques in natural language processing and speech analytics. Strengths include software development, mentoring, and a strong foundation in technical research. Previously worked on diverse projects, including building automated data systems, training language identification models, and developing custom translation pipelines at organizations like August AI and TractionBoard B.V. Brings a passion for leveraging technology to solve real-world challenges, thrives in collaborative environments, and seeks to drive impactful innovation in AI-driven applications.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

hugging face

Work experience

AI Engineer at Wayground (formerly Quizizz), Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru, - Reimagined the Qbit Avatar Shop with new features and UI/UX redesign, making it more user friendly - Increased shop visitors by over 10% and item purchased by over 15%

AI/ML Intern at Wayground (formerly Quizizz), May 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Deployed a pipeline to create 2D explainer HTML animations, generating 500+ assets with measurable gains in teacher adoption. - Engineered a lesson generation pipeline, elevating curriculum quality from 3→10 stars across 300+ U.S. middle school lessons where average no. of plays per lesson was more than 350 over a year. - Created pipelines where students were able to custom generate shoes for their Qbit characters with over a million shoes generated in 3 months.

Student Tutor at Plaksha University, Feb 2025 - May 2025 · 4 mos, On-site, - Student Tutor for the course Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (MLPR) for second year students. - Helped student groups to think and decide on project topics, took monthly status updates, and graded their progress.

Founder's Office Intern at August AI, Sep 2024 - May 2025 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, - Benchmarked 15 open-source translation models on medical Hinglish text; identified a 59% BLEU score gap between best open-source (24.46) and optimal pipeline (44.3). - Built a novel Hinglish→English translation pipeline (TTS→STT→Hindi→English), achieving a BLEU score of 38.92. - Trained a BERT-based Hinglish LID classifier, achieving F1 of 0.97 on a binary classification task deployed in production.

Software Development Intern at Tractionboard.co (Techstars 23'), May 2024 - Aug 2024 · 4 mos, - Engineered an end-to-end automated system for data verification and cleaning, eliminating the need for manual intervention. - Streamlined data quality by implementing robust formatting, and preprocessing steps, ensuring consistent input and output. - Implemented web scraping with Selenium, data manipulation with Pandas, and RESTful Flask APIs for Bubble integration.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, Plaksha University

Computer Science, La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata

Public links

github: https://github.com/Utk984